The benefit of functional-anatomical imaging with [f]fluorodeoxyglucose utilizing a dual-head coincidence gamma camera with an integrated x-ray transmission system in non-small cell lung cancer

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 909-915

  Eschmann, Susanne M ^a   Bitzer, Michael ^a   Paulsen, Frank ^a   Friedel, Godehard ^a   Besenfelder, Hariolf ^a   Horger, Marius ^b   Reimold, Matthias ^b   Dittmann, Helmut ^b   Pfannenberg, Anna C ^b   Bares, Roland ^b  

^a Departments of Nuclear Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coincidence gamma camera; Image fusion; Non small cell lung cancer; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG UPTAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPH NODE; MALE; NECK MUSCLE; PNEUMONIA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; TUMOR VOLUME; X RAY;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 4444300520     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200409000-00008     Document Type: Article

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